"Red Rose (1980 film) Red Rose is a 1980 Hindi-language psychological thriller film, starring Rajesh Khanna and Poonam Dhillon. It was a remake of the Tamil movie ""Sigappu Rojakkal"", made by the same director Bharathi Raja and the same cinematographer P. S. Nivas. The original Tamil movie was reported to be loosely inspired by Raman Raghav's grisly crimes and was dubbed in Telugu as ""Erra Gulabilu"", and was also remade in Japanese as ""Red Roses"" and in Russian as ""Krasnyye Rozy"". Anand (Rajesh Khanna) is a successful businessman with a dark side. He preys on nubile girls and rapes and"
"OHMS (1980 film) OHMS is a 1980 American made-for-television drama film directed by Dick Lowry. It stars Ralph Waite, David Birney, Talia Balsam, Dixie Carter and also features Leslie Nielsen as the Governor. It was broadcast on CBS on January 2, 1980. The film is about a conservative farmer in the Midwest who leads a group of local residents lobbying against a power company invading their land. It was shot on location in New Philadelphia, Ohio. Faced with a large corporation's attempt to erect large electric towers on private owners' land against their wishes, a conservative farmer organizes community resistance."
"OHMS (1980 film) OHMS is a 1980 American made-for-television drama film directed by Dick Lowry. It stars Ralph Waite, David Birney, Talia Balsam, Dixie Carter and also features Leslie Nielsen as the Governor. It was broadcast on CBS on January 2, 1980. The film is about a conservative farmer in the Midwest who leads a group of local residents lobbying against a power company invading their land. It was shot on location in New Philadelphia, Ohio. Faced with a large corporation's attempt to erect large electric towers on private owners' land against their wishes, a conservative farmer organizes community resistance."
"August 1980. Cast member Lisby Larson (Paige Marshall) serenaded the couple with a rendition of ""Oklahoma!"". On April 28, 2010, Nigh and his wife were robbed at gunpoint in the driveway of their northwest Oklahoma City home. They were uninjured, though Nigh's wallet was taken. No suspect has been found. George Nigh George Patterson Nigh (born June 9, 1927) is an American politician and civic leader from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Nigh served as the 17th and the 22nd Governor of Oklahoma and as the 8th and 10th Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma. He was the first Oklahoma governor to"
"eleven Academy Awards, winning for Best Original Story. Considered to be one of the greatest films of all time, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1989, deeming it ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". The governor of an unnamed western state, Hubert ""Happy"" Hopper (Guy Kibbee), has to pick a replacement for recently deceased U.S. Senator Sam Foley. His corrupt political boss, Jim Taylor (Edward Arnold), pressures Hopper to choose his handpicked stooge, while popular committees want a reformer, Henry Hill. The governor's children want him to select"
"(Emma Thompson); ruthless political strategist Richard Jemmons (Billy Bob Thornton); intelligent and attractive spokeswoman Daisy Green (Maura Tierney); and sly political operator Howard Ferguson (Paul Guilfoyle) as they journey to New Hampshire, the first state to hold a presidential primary. After Stanton completes an impressive debate performance against his Democratic rivals, Henry’s ex-girlfriend shows up to question Stanton about his arrest for an anti-war protest during the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. In addition it's revealed that Stanton called a U.S. senator to help him get released then Stanton persuaded the mayor of Chicago to have his police record expunged."
"released in 1978 but made in the 1960's and shelved for a decade). Pete Anderson (Richard Egan) is chief of police of a small western town, Wellerton. Anderson has a run-in with the son of a council official (played by Len Travis and John Dennis respectively), who gets him fired. His warnings that the town is vulnerable to a criminal takeover were considered scaremongering. Meanwhile, a group of thieves is being anonymously summoned to a ghost town in the desert by a criminal mastermind. Each is promised a minimum of $50,000 for participating in a heist, must wear a beard"
"Angel County in California. A large, hairy, slug-like, omnivorous monster emerges from the side of an impacted spaceship. A second one, still tethered inside, kills a forest ranger and the sheriff (Byrd Holland) when they independently enter the craft to investigate. Gordon, now a temporary sheriff, joins his wife Brett (Shannon O'Neil). Dr. Bradford (William Thourlby), a renowned scientist, Col. James Caldwell (John Caresio), a military commander, and Caldwell's men were sent to fight the creature. Meanwhile, the monster stalks the countryside, devouring a girl in a bikini, picnickers at a ""hootenanny"", Grandpa Brown (Jack King) and his grandson while"
"Gloria (1980 film) Gloria is a 1980 American thriller crime drama film written and directed by John Cassavetes. It tells the story of a gangster's girlfriend who goes on the run with a young boy who is being hunted by the mob for information he may or may not have. It stars Gena Rowlands, Julie Carmen, Buck Henry, and John Adames. In the South Bronx, Jeri Dawn is heading home with groceries. Inside the lobby of her apartment building, she passes a man whose dress and appearance are out of place. The woman quickly boards the elevator. She is met"
"them to the nearest settlement where they are adopted by different families. One of the boys (both played by Hart) becomes a rancher known as the Three Word Brand due to his sparsity of speech while the other becomes governor of the state. Neither knows of the other. The rancher is in partnership with George Barton (Bingham) who is accused of murder, but Brand believes in his innocence. At the same time Governor Marsden has been asked to sign a water bill which will deprive the ranchers in the valley of their supply of water. The governor decides to visit"
"Defiance (1980 film) Defiance is a 1980 American film starring Jan-Michael Vincent, Art Carney, and Theresa Saldana. The film, an early Jerry Bruckheimer production, follows a suspended young seaman (Jan-Michael Vincent) who takes up temporary housing in a neighborhood overrun by a gang while waiting for his next orders to ship out. The gang is in dominating control, stealing and robbing at will. No one will press charges due to fear of retribution, so he takes matters into his own hands to combat the growing violence, spurring his fellow neighbors to join him. The film was unsuccessful upon release, both"
"a similar plot, changing the main character from a gangster's girlfriend to a teacher, who tries to save a student from criminals who killed his parents and are now chasing after him. Gloria (1980 film) Gloria is a 1980 American thriller crime drama film written and directed by John Cassavetes. It tells the story of a gangster's girlfriend who goes on the run with a young boy who is being hunted by the mob for information he may or may not have. It stars Gena Rowlands, Julie Carmen, Buck Henry, and John Adames. In the South Bronx, Jeri Dawn is"
"Super Fuzz Super Fuzz () is a 1980 Italian-American comedy film directed by Sergio Corbucci. The film is about Dave Speed, an autodidact and a bumbling Miami police officer who gains super powers through accidental nuclear exposure. The film stars Terence Hill and Ernest Borgnine. The story starts as a retrospective, as police officer Dave Speed (Terence Hill) faces his fourth execution attempt (this time by the electric chair) for the alleged murder of his superior and friend, Sergeant Willy Dunlop (Ernest Borgnine). While taking his last walk once more, Dave reminisces about how this all got started. Coming fresh"
"three years later, ""Smokey and the Bandit Part 3"" (1983), in which Reynolds appeared only in a brief cameo appearance, and Sally Field was absent completely. The plot centers on Bo ""Bandit"" Darville (Burt Reynolds) and Cledus ""Snowman"" Snow (Jerry Reed), transporting an elephant to the GOP National Convention, with Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason) in hot pursuit once again. Big Enos Burdette is running for Governor of Texas against another candidate, John Coen. After a figurative and literal ""mudslinging,"" both are confronted by the outgoing governor and given a thorough tongue-lashing. Burdette overhears the governor yelling at an"
"are sworn-in as Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, respectively, in February 1981. Soon afterwards, news of the political impropriety of Governor and First Lady Callison is revealed in the news, to the shame of Ed who resigns in the midst of the scandal. Herb soon follows, and with Ed's career ruined, he proceeded to pick up the pieces of his shattered life. Assuming work as a private investigator, Ed acquires a steady clientele of work. When the assumed father of the ward of Viki Lord, Tina Clayton (Andrea Evans) escapes from jail, he arrives in Llanview in search of"
"inoperable. The Apaches, under their chief Two Knife, relentlessly attack the patrol in order to get the Gatling Gun, or ""King Gun"" as they call it, to use against the soldiers. The Gatling Gun The Gatling Gun originally titled King Gun is a Western shot in 1969 in New Mexico that features then New Mexico Governor David Cargo in a small role. The final film of director Robert Gordon, was not released until 1971. Lured by Apache gold, two cavalry troopers desert their post, killing some of their fellow troopers in order to steal a Gatling Gun. The devious two"
"state championship. The coach and four of the victors regularly gather to relive the glory of their shining moment. As teenage teammates they could read each other's moves on the court without fail. As middle-aged men, each is facing his own different mid-life crisis. With a former coach that still addresses problems as if his boys are having a bad game, the friends' longtime loyalty to one another begins to unravel. George Sitkowski is mayor of Scranton and engaged in a fierce campaign for re-election. James Daley is an overwrought and underpaid school principal while his brother, Tom, has become"
"(Lionel Jeffries), who has just made a large diamond heist and is on his way by train to St. Trinian's to visit his daughter Myrna (Lisa Gastoni), is recognized by Roberts, his former prison governor. After Mangan leaves the train, the former prison governor reads a newspaper account of the theft, which has all the hallmarks of Mangan's approach, and alerts the police of Mangan's whereabouts. Mangan, while walking to the school, stops to ask directions at a parked car, where he finds Superintendent Kemp-Bird (Lloyd Lamble) having a tryst with his fiancée Police Sergeant Ruby Gates (Joyce Grenfell). Mangan"
"""Super Fuzz"" ""can be enjoyed by equally by both adults who appreciate a mindless retro comedy, or children who enjoy such simple pleasures as the [sight] of Borgnine dancing atop a giant, floating bubble-gum balloon."" Super Fuzz Super Fuzz () is a 1980 Italian-American comedy film directed by Sergio Corbucci. The film is about Dave Speed, an autodidact and a bumbling Miami police officer who gains super powers through accidental nuclear exposure. The film stars Terence Hill and Ernest Borgnine. The story starts as a retrospective, as police officer Dave Speed (Terence Hill) faces his fourth execution attempt (this time"
"early 1880s. He is accompanied by his two inseparable companions, played by Georgie Stone and George Cooper. The day is being celebrated in the style of a Spanish fiesta. Fay challenges a rough Texan, played by Noah Beery, to a duel, only to find himself invited to undertake the dangerous task of capturing a cattle rustler who has been stealing cattle from the Lazy Y Ranch. He accepts the task on the promise of receiving $7000 in gold if he can return both the thief and the stolen cattle within 10 days. During the next nine days, Fay spends his"
"Carl (Chandler Riggs) sees his father would benefit from some rest, and suggests that he let Hershel and Daryl (Norman Reedus) take charge. The Governor is readying Woodbury for total war. Civilians, including women and adolescents, are given weapons and taught to use them, in preparation for combat. Andrea (Laurie Holden) is disturbed by this and asks to leave to negotiate a peace with the prison, but The Governor discourages her, implying that she will not be welcomed back if she leaves. Andrea asks Milton (Dallas Roberts) to help her sneak out, which Milton reports back to The Governor (as"
"in the film he plans an escape for Olga. She goes to work with the other girls out in the hot desert, and the rest of the film is a series of subplots, including one in which a few of the workers are sent out to be hookers, one where a worker participates in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse, and one where the impotent Governor (Antonio Mayans, billed as Robert Foster) buys a couple of the workers to help him perform. There is also a scene where the Governor is finally able to have sex with his wife, but only"
"Colorado Governor James Bradley Orman pardons him after ten years in 1902. In March 2004, Warner Bros. and Plan B Entertainment acquired feature film rights to Ron Hansen's 1983 novel ""The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"". Andrew Dominik was hired to write and direct the film adaptation. Pitt was considered to portray Jesse James. The role of Ford eventually was between Affleck and Shia LaBeouf; Affleck was cast because it was felt that LaBeouf was too young. Bill Clinton's presidential campaign strategist James Carville was selected to play the Governor of Missouri. By January 2005, Pitt"
"troops have seized control of the town, taking potentially valuable residents into custody and executing resistors. However, the bus carrying Jacobs is ambushed by American resistance fighters Connor (Tom Pelphrey) (a former Marine from North Carolina) and Rianna (Hannah Cabell) (a hunting expert from Colorado), who lead him to Oasis, a resistance hideout founded by local state patrolman Boone Karlson (Jim Coleman). Boone, Connor, and Rianna are aware of Jacobs's background as a pilot and recruit him to help recover fuel for the scattered U.S. military forces. Boone initiates the operation with himself, Jacobs, Connor, Rianna, and Hopper (Joel de"
"civilized"" while the white man ""is equipped for survival in... the urban landscape"". The 1980s was a popular decade for action films, and the genre that ""blended masculinity, heroism, and patriotism into an idealized image"" was hybridized with buddy films. Following the Civil Rights Movement, black advancement was also reflected in more common biracial pairings. In this decade, the buddy cop film took the place of the buddy road movie. Action films with biracial pairings include the 1982 film ""48 Hours"" starring Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte and the 1987 film ""Lethal Weapon"" starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. ""American"
"and failed to earn a profit for its distributor Warner Bros. In 1878, Chiefs Little Wolf (Ricardo Montalbán) and Dull Knife (Gilbert Roland) led over three hundred starved and weary Cheyenne Indians from their reservation in the Oklahoma Territory to their former traditional home in Wyoming. The U.S. government sees this as an act of rebellion, and the sympathetic Captain Thomas Archer (Richard Widmark) of the U.S. Army is forced to lead his troops in an attempt to stop the tribe. As the press misrepresents the natives' motives and goals for their trek as malicious, the U.S. Secretary of the"
"Oaks, California. Calamity Jane (Jane Russell) is busted out of a sheriff's jail by a couple of government agents under Governor Johnson (Charles Trowbridge) and Commissioner of Internal Affairs Emerson (Stanley Andrews). Johnson and Emerson wish to hire her to uncover white traitors illegally selling guns to an Indian tribe near Buffalo Flats, one of the frontier areas; since the agents they previously sent to investigate have turned up dead, they have conceived a plan to use Jane, both as a woman and skilled gunfighter, instead. In return for her services, Johnson and Emerson offer her a full pardon for"
"disability. As in the earlier film ""Wichita"" (1955), the conflict of the law with the outlaw runs parallel to the resentment of the town's own leadership. Warlock is a small Utah mining town of the early 1880s. Cowboys working for Abe McQuown often come into town to shoot the place up, kill on just a whim, beating or humiliating any sheriff who tries to stand up to them. The Citizens' Committee decides to hire Clay Blaisedell, a renowned gunfighter, as town marshal in spite of the misgivings of some, such as old Judge Holloway who insists that the situation should"
"for The Governor. As the other members of their original group perish in the war between the prison and Woodbury, The Governor's cruelty is exposed to Sasha and Tyreese, who switch sides and join Rick's group. Sasha eventually becomes romantically involved with Bob Stookey, and later on, Abraham Ford. Sasha becomes the group's sniper. Sasha, a firefighter before the apocalypse, is among a large group of survivors (a total of 25 at one point) from Jacksonville, Florida, led by her older brother, Tyreese (Chad Coleman). In Atlanta, Georgia, the group comprises five people when they encounter Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln)"
"a shabbily dressed man who is trying to shoot the governor. They discover that this man is a dead ringer for the governor and also claims to be the real governor. The Flash arrives on the scene to overhear this, but moves on to confront the hoodlums attacking the city. The Thinker appears on the scene, firing a ray at the Crimson Comet, causing him to gain weight and crash through a roof. Recovering, the Flash speeds over to the governor's mansion, only to overhear the governor ordering all police forces to surrender. Flash enters his office and discovers the"
"discovers that she and he are now targeted by detectives led by Superintendent Lui (Charlie Chin), seeking to cover evidence of their own drug crimes. Framed for murder, Heung rapidly runs out of options as the killers target his elderly mother and young daughter. Wounded, Heung is forced to rely on the assassin Pai, who slowly warms up to him while caring for him and his young daughter. They have to stick together as long as they can until they die or are taken under custody. On the Run (1988 film) On the Run is a 1988 Hong Kong action"
"which was released shortly after ""Hey! Hey! USA!"". In this film, Twist is dismissed from St. Michaels for incompetence, and whilst attending a job interview for a position in another school, he is mistaken for Australian disciplinarian John D. Benjamin (Roy Emerton), and accidentally accepts the post of governor of Blackdown Prison in Devon (possibly based on the real-life Dartmoor Prison), where he befriends prison-warden Albert (Graham Moffatt) and inmate Jerry ""The Mole"" (Moore Marriott). A precursor of the Benjamin Twist character was Dr Alec Smart in ""Boys Will Be Boys"" (1935), who was an otherwise identical teaching character. In"
"The Octagon (film) The Octagon is a 1980 action film starring Chuck Norris, Karen Carlson and Lee Van Cleef. It was directed by Eric Karson and written by Paul Aaron and Leigh Chapman. It was filmed in Los Angeles, California and released on August 14, 1980. It is notable for its inventive use of 'voice over' effects to portray the inner life of Norris' character, Scott James. This was actor Richard Norton's film debut. A martial artist (Chuck Norris) must stop a group of terrorists trained in the ninja style by his half-brother (Tadashi Yamashita). The film opens with a"